How to Dominate The Search Engines With SEO Plan

One of the best ways to get free, targeted on-demand traffic is by making effective use of SEO. SEO constitutes a major portion of shoutmeloud’s traffic and I also get a good deal of traffic from it. SEO is also very important because of the type of quality traffic you get for it – SEO traffic converts better than most traffic types. This post will be detailing how you can take your blog to the next level of SEO.

How to use SEO to dominate Search engines?

Playing With Keywords

Keywords are the most important element of SEO and I wouldn’t even recommend you to give SEO a trial without first doing a bit of keyword research. It is very important to have researched the keyword you would like to rank for before even registering your domain name because having your keywords in your domain name helps you improve your chances of ranking for the keyword.

There are a lot of great tools you can use when trying to do effective keyword research for your blog/website and one of the best free ones out there is the Google Adwords Keyword Tool.

Once you know your keyword it is also important to consider some of the following factors:

After you now have your keyword, the next very important step is to optimize your site’s on-page factor. Some of these factors are the meta description and the keyword usage.

Here are some tips to consider when optimizing your on-page factors:

Use your keyword once or twice in your website title.

Use your keyword more than once in your meta description.

Make sure you always use your keywords properly in your blog posts.

When going for a super competitive keyword make sure you write more posts about the keyword you are trying to rank for, for example, if you want to rank for nintendo wii then let the majority of your post be about nintendo wii.

Make sure you update your blog regularly, you can update it as often as you want but try to update it at least once a week – the more you update, the better it is.

Be very careful about how you use outbound links (link to websites), you wouldn’t want to link to black hat guys practicing unethical marketing.

Links control the web and that is why it plays a major role in search engine rankings. When trying to improve your search engine rankings it is very important to build backlinks to your website because this goes a long way in improving your search engine rankings.

There are a lot of factors to be considered when trying to build backlinks to your blog. It is very important to know the type of backlinks you will get because all links are not created equal and dofollow links from high authority sites are more important than just any type of links.

It is also important to make sure you get links from relevant sites in your niche, it wouldn’t be advisable to get links to a technology blog from a fishing blog because the search engines will begin to become suspicious of your site thinking you are already practicing some shady tactics.

Now in 2012, one thing which has changed a lot is social media metrics. Google started giving more weightage to Social media signals like Google plus, Tweets, Delicious save and so on. So, make sure you implement social bookmarking iconson your blog and encourage users to share your articles.

COMMENTs ( 6 )

You said, “Over 95 percent of your rankings will be determined by factors outside your website i.e. off-page factors.” But I guess, Both On page and Off page are equally important to Rank Higher i.e 50% each.

“It is also important to make sure you get links from relevant sites in your niche, it wouldn’t be advisable to get links to a technology blog from a fishing blog because the search engines will begin to become suspicious of your site thinking you are already practicing some shady tactics.”

What about signatures in Internet Marketing Forums? I see many signatures in forums like DP, which have keyword rich anchor text in the signatures, and which are not related to the IM niche. Instead they belong to other niches like health niche etc.